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Motor Control Hardware Development Tools

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We offer a variety of development boards that provide an easy and economical way to evaluate your motor control applications. These tools work seamlessly with our emulators, debuggers and application software to simplify and speed up your development.

Brushed DC and Stepper Motors

Evaluation Board	Description
MTS2916A Dual Full-Bridge Stepper Motor Driver Evaluation Board (ADM00308)	Demonstrates the control of a bipolar stepper motor or two Brushed DC motors, can be powered by a 7V to 12V DC input
dsPICDEM™ MCSM Development Board (DM330022-1)	Demonstrates unipolar or bipolar stepper motor control in open-loop or closed-loop (current control) mode
Stepper Motor for MCSM (AC300024)	Leadshine model 42HS03 stepper motor that can be used with the dsPICDEM MCSM Development Board (DM330022)
SmartFusion^®2 Dual-Axis Motor Control Starter Kit (SF2-MC-STARTER-KIT)	Dual-axis motor control solution for evaluating stepper motor control with 2048 microsteps

Brushless DC Motors or Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors

Low-Voltage Kits

Evaluation Board	Description
dsPIC33CK Low-Voltage Motor Control (LVMC) Development Board (DM330031)	A cost-effective development platform for BLDC, Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor (PMSM) and Internal Permanent Magnet (IPM) motor control applications
dsPICDEM™ MCLV-2 Development Board (Low Voltage) (DM330021-2)	For sensored or sensorless BLDC motor and PMSM control applications
EPC9146KITA – 400 W Motor Drive Evaluation Kit (EPC9146KITA)	Demonstrates using a three-phase EPC2152 GANFET-based motor drive for a BLDC/PMSM application
24V Brushless DC Motor for MCLV-2 and LVMC Development Boards (AC300020)	Hurst NT Dynamo motor comes with Hall-Effect sensors for six-step commutation
24V Brushless DC Motor with Encoder for MCLV-2 and LVMC Development Boards (AC300022)	Hurst NT Dynamo motor comes with Hall-effect sensors for six-step commutation and has a 250-line incremental encoder for position control applications
SmartFusion^® 2 Dual-Axis Motor Control Starter Kit (SF2-MC-STARTER-KIT)	Dual-axis motor control solution for evaluating Field Oriented Control (FOC) using sensorless control or with Hall sensors, encoders and resolvers
dsPIC33CK Motor Control Starter Kit (MCSK) (EV12F76A)	Provides a complete solution to rapidly prototype a low-voltage three-phase BLDC motor-based application.

High-Voltage Kits

Evaluation Board	Description
Leadshine 400W 220 V_AC Servo Motor (AC300025)	PMSM servo motor with 2500 line incremental encoder for dsPICDEM MCHV-3 High-Voltage Motor Control Development Board

Motor Control PIMs and DIMs for the MCSM, MCLV-2 and MCLV-48V-300W Boards

Evaluation Board	Description
dsPIC33CH128MP508 Motor Control Plug-In Module (PIM) (MA330039)	For dsPIC33CH128MPxxx family of devices with two DSC cores and 128 KB of Flash memory
dsPIC33CH512MP508 Motor Control PIM (MA330045)	For dsPIC33CH512MPxxx family of devices with two DSC cores and 512 KB of Flash memory
dsPIC33CK256MP508 External Op Amp Motor Control PIM (MA330041-1)	For dsPIC33CKxxxMP50x and dsPIC33CKxxxMP20x families of devices
dsPIC33CK256MP508 Internal Op Amp Motor Control PIM (MA330041-2)	For dsPIC33CKxxxMP50x and dsPIC33CKxxxMP20x families of devices and internal op amp evaluation
dsPIC33CK64MP105 External Op Amp Motor Control PIM (MA330050-1)	For dsPIC33CKxxxMP10x family of devices
dsPIC33CK64MP105 Internal Op Amp Motor Control PIM (MA330050-2)	For dsPIC33CKxxxMP10x family of devices and internal op amp evaluation
dsPIC33CK64MC105 External Op Amp Motor Control PIM (MA330051-1)	For dsPIC33CKxxxMC10x family of devices
dsPIC33CK64MC105 Internal Op Amp Motor Control PIM (MA330051-2)	For dsPIC33CKxxxMC10x family of devices and internal op amp evaluation
PIC32MK1024 Motor Control PIM (MA320024)	For PIC32MK family devices with 120 MHz performance and up to 1 MB of Flash memory
ATSAME54 Motor Control PIM (MA320207)	For 32-bit ARM^® Cortex^®-M4 processor
ATSAMC21 Motor Control PIM (MA320206)	For SAM C21 32-bit Arm^® Cortex^®-M0+ based microcontroller
ATSAME70 Motor Control PIM (MA320203)	For SAM E70 32-bit Arm Cortex-M7 based microcontroller
dsPIC33EP256MC506 Ext Op Amp PIM (MA330031-2)	For dsPIC33EPxxxMC50x, dsPIC33EPxxxMC20x, and PIC24EPxxxMC20x devices
dsPIC33CK256MC506 External Op Amp Motor Control PIM (EV00X645A)	For dsPIC33CK256MC50x, dsPIC33CK128MC50x, dsPIC33CK256MC10x and dsPIC33CK128MC10x and MCSM Development Board
dsPIC33CK256MC506 Internal Op Amp Motor Control PIM (EV19G29A)	For dsPIC33CK256MC50x, dsPIC33CK128MC50x, dsPIC33CK256MC10x and dsPIC33CK128MC10x devices
dsPIC33CK512MP608 External Op Amp Motor Control PIM (EV64G19A)	For dsPIC33CKxxxMP60x, and dsPIC33CKxxxMP30x devices
dsPIC33CH512MP508 Motor Control DIM (EV76L31A)	For dsPIC33CHxxxMP50x and dsPIC33CHxxxMP20x DSC devices
dsPIC33CK1024MP710 Motor Control DIM (EV04L63A)	For dsPIC33CKxxxMP7xx and dsPIC33CKxxxMP4xx DSC devices
dsPIC33CK64MC105 Motor Control DIM (EV03J37A)	For dsPIC33CKxxMC10x DSC devices
dsPIC33CK64MC105 Motor Control DIM (EV62P66A)	For dsPIC33CKxxMC10x DSC devices
PIC32 MK MCM Motor Control DIM (EV49S83A)	For PIC32MK MCM Series MCU Family
PIC32 MK MCA Motor Control DIM (EV10R52A)	For PIC32MK MCA Series MCU Family
SAM C21 Motor Control DIM (EV74G56A)	For SAM C2x 32-Bit MCU Family
SAM E54 Motor Control DIM (EV24X01A)	For SAM D5x and E5x 32-Bit MCU Family
SAM E70 Motor Control DIM (EV87E90A)	For SAM S/E/V 32-Bit MCU Family
PIC32CM MC Motor Control DIM (EV61E63A)	For PIC32CM MC 32-Bit MCU Family

AC Induction Motors

Evaluation Board	Description
AC Induction Motor for MCHV-3 (AC300023)	Three-phase, 220 V_AC, 25 Watt four-pole induction motor for the dsPICDEM MCHV-3 Development Board (DM330023-3)
SmartFusion^® 2 Dual-Axis Motor Control Starter Kit (SF2-MC-STARTER-KIT)	Dual-axis motor control solution for evaluating FOC using sensorless control or with Hall sensors, encoders and resolvers, stepper motor control with 2048 microsteps and open-loop V/f induction motor control

Emulators and Debuggers

These debuggers and programmers, with features ranging from basic debugging to advance emulation capabilities, are USB powered, work across all MCU and DSC platforms, and are fully integrated with MPLAB^® X Integrated Development Environment (IDE).

Programmer/Debugger	Description
MPLAB ICD 5 In-Circuit Debugger (DV164055)	Fastest and cost-effective debugging and programming tool for PIC^® and SAM MCUs and dsPIC^® DSCs
MPLAB PICkit™ 5 In-Circuit Debugger (PG164150)	Allows fast, low-cost and easy debugging and programming of PIC, AVR^® and SAM MCUs and dsPIC DSCs